Effort Quotes
So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.
They don't understand that I'm just choosing to be dumb. I'm not dumb. I'm just choosing not to be smart at the moment, but if I put in effort, then I could be really smart, but I choose not to.
Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
Those localized efforts take a long time and they don't deal with the larger issue of ISIL and the question of what you're going to do to really have a solution here. We have to save Syria.
The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.
The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.
Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.
...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.
I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.
I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me.
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.
We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.
There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up.
Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.
I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.
I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)
I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.
Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.
It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.
Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers, and generate options.
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.
The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich.